COMMENT POSTED TO AN ARTICLE BY RUPERT CORNWELL IN THE
INDEPENDENT
Election fraud has been a reality in America all of my
lifetime.
And I'm sorry to say, but Democrats have featured large in
it.
Lyndon Johnson's first congressional election in Texas is
documented as fraudulent.
John Kennedy only was elected by Mayor Daley's 'boys" in
Chicago working into the wee hours to see how the returns came in from
Republican downstate Illinois so they could know how many Chicago votes they
needed to generate to offset them.
Lyndon Johnson, lifetime crooked politician, also gave them
Texas, which was the job expected of him as VP candidate.
As recently as 2000, we had large-scale fraud in Florida
under Jeb Bush and in a couple of other states. Even with the fraud, George
Bush was elected with far fewer total votes than Gore, owing to the peculiar
and deliberately anti-democratic Electoral College set up by those
non-believers in democracy, The Founding Fathers.
There are many, many such stories.
But I have to say, in my adult lifetime, I've not seen such
blatant ballot fraud and voter suppression as happened in Hillary's campaign. Voter
suppression – sending people to the wrong place or other fraternity-boy dirty
tricks – seems to be growing in popularity.
Her record against Bernie in the primaries represents the
most corrupt effort ever, and I'm not even thinking of the Wasserman
interference at the DNC which only added to the whole thing.
At least a million ballots were destroyed in California and
went uncounted.
Hundreds of thousands of likely Bernie supporters were
removed from the registration rolls and unable to vote in New York when they
showed up.
Voters in Arizona were sent to the wrong place and at some
polling stations there were no ballots for people waiting to vote.
The early Caucus in Iowa, desperately needed by Hillary with
her defeat in New Hampshire's primary, was highly irregular according to many
witnesses.
In the Nevada caucus, fist fights almost broke out over the
irregularities.
There are no formal remedies for most of these abuses in the
United States, except of course for law suits which take a long time.
Nevertheless, law suits have been started over Hillary’s “victory,” but it's
not possible to "unelect" someone sitting in high office, so the
remedies available to those bringing suits are doubtful.
An academic's statistical study of the 1916 primaries
recently concluded that it was most likely Bernie actually won the vote, but we
all see the results. Cheating works in America, and, judging by 2016, it is
prospering.
Many outside the United States do not realize that voting
procedures and rules and scrutiny for even national candidates are the
responsibility of the individual states. So you have fifty sets of rules and at
least fifty ways rules can be bent by local interests.
Also there are fifty sets of rules for even getting a name
on the ballots for a national election, and these usually reflect much
long-time local crafty party trickery and manipulation.
Another thing many outside America do not appreciate is that
there is absolutely no federal agency in America to oversee elections or to
insure fairness and uniformity in local voting. And that applies to the actual
elections. As far as the primaries go, the things which can determine who will
run in the actual election, they are understood as internal matters of a
political party.
It is all a chaotic situation and easy to take advantage of,
as Hillary’s people very much have done.
